Ukrainian Cluster Alliance and EIT Manufacturing collaborate

The war in Ukraine has brought together Ukrainian clusters and SMEs in a unique alliance, the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA). Starting in March as Clusters4Ukraine, it grew fast, renamed itself to Ukrainian Cluster Alliance and has grown ever since. EIT Manufacturing is honoured to collaborate with UCA and welcomes the organisation as a network partner. As a …

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EIT Health-supported start-up Idoven raises EUR 18.5M

Idoven, a Madrid-based healthtech company, is specialised in early detection and precision treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The EIT Healt-supported start-up will use the funding to continue developing its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to identify arrhythmias and cardiac anomalies. The financing consisted of a EUR 12 million round led by Insight Partners and Northzone. Wayra, the innovation hub of EIT Health …

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Aid Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community: €33.4 million for the Action Programme 2022

The Commission adopted the 2022 Annual Action Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community, worth €33.4 million. The Programme plans tailored measures as part of the wide-ranging EU support to implement the Halloumi/Hellim package, to help Turkish Cypriots meet the relevant EU standards. This support follows the Commission’s registration of Halloumi/Hellim as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) in April …

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Interdisciplinary COST Actions

COST Action networks can be highly interdisciplinary allowing for innovation and cross-fertilisation of concepts. In this success story, four COST Actions share how fostering interdisciplinary helped with their research. “Fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science” is one of COST’s strategic objectives and the flexible nature of COST Actions provide a fertile environment to bring together researchers …

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Eligibility of participation of Swiss and UK researchers in COST

Under COST rules in Horizon Europe, researchers and innovators affiliated to institutions based in Switzerland or the United Kingdom are fully eligible to participate in COST Actions. This includes: reimbursed participation in Action networking activities (meetings, conferences, Training Schools, Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs), and virtual mobility grants); possibility to be a main or secondary proposer …

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New Aquaculture Assistance Mechanism to support EU sustainable aquaculture

A new Aquaculture Assistance Mechanism became operational in July 2022 to support the European Commission in the implementation of the “Strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture for the period 2021- 2030”. The Assistance Mechanism is part of a Service Contract funded under the call for tenders CINEA/EMFAF/2021/3.4.12 and CINEA/EMFAF/2021/3.4.13. The Aquaculture Assistance Mechanism will …

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Nature: a key ally for cooler, sustainable and resilient cities

The EU accelerates sustainable urban transformation. It commits to create 100 climate neutral and smart cities by 2030. Learn more about the fascinating EU-funded projects working to achieve this goal. 100 climate neutral and smart cities by 2030 Developing and implementing solutions for sustainable urban living is a key priority for the European Union. Cities …

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Extended deadline of Open Market Consultation for the European Open Science Cloud Public Procurement Action

Opportunity to participate in the preliminary market consultation on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Public Procurement Action extended to 5 August. The European Commission has decided to extend the preliminary market consultation for the upcoming EOSC procurement by end of business day on Friday, 5 August 2022. The interested parties shall send their feedback, comments, clarifications and …

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European Commission EC to invest 70.5 million EUR into interregional innovation projects of the first I3 Instrument calls

The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) selected 11 projects under the first cut-offs of the Interregional Innovation Investment (I3) Instrument calls under stands 1 and 2a. The beneficiaries are consortia coming from all over Europe and will receive about EUR 70.5 million of EU funding coming from the European Regional Development Fund, and …

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Bioeconomy Creative Competition: Show us the bioeconomy in your life!

Applications and inputs can be sent in any official EU language or Ukrainian. Translations of the registration form in EU survey from English to the official EU languages and Ukrainian can be found at the bottom of the EU survey page. Are you a creative person between the ages of 14 and 35, legally residing in EU-27 or Ukraine …

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